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Westchester County Business Journal: "Smart growth drives development in suburban communities"

03/31/2016

Westchester County Business Journal: "Smart growth drives development in suburban communities"

Visiting Westchester recently, Parris N. Glendening, the former Maryland governor, dined one evening at a restaurant on Central Avenue. A national advocate for smart growth – high-density, mixed-use development near mass transit centers to reduce sprawl and protect the natural environment in more walkable cities and suburbs – Glendening glimpsed the commercial avenue’s possibilities beyond its streaming lanes of exhaust-emitting auto and truck traffic.

“What a grand boulevard that could be,” he mused before an audience of about 225 real estate, finance and planning professionals and municipal officials from New York and Connecticut at Pace Law School.

Glendening – the keynote speaker at a recent panel discussion on smart growth presented by the Land Use Law Center at Pace and the Business Journal’s parent company, Westfair Communications – was alluding to a rising trend among municipal planners and private developers that promotes foot traffic in place of driving in urban areas being redeveloped for a new generation of downtown residents. The new urbanism championed by Glendening, first as Maryland’s governor and now as president of Smart Growth America’s Leadership Institute and the Governor’s Institute on Community Design, and adopted by an increasing number of municipalities in this region is to a large degree, as New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson noted on the panel, “the old urbanism all over again.”

For public officials like Bramson, smart-growth development proposals often encounter strong local opposition. “The job of a mayor in moving development forward is tough,” said panel moderator John R. Nolon, a Pace law professor and founder of the Land Use Law Center. “There are two things that Americans hate: one is sprawl and the other is density.”

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SC Magazine: "FBI investigating attack against computer networks at U.S. law firms"

03/31/2016

SC Magazine: "FBI investigating attack against computer networks at U.S. law firms"

. . . Darren Hayes, director of cybersecurity at Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, noted that law firms have been a target for hackers because they possess large quantities of intellectual property. “The recent slew of attacks on Wall Street law firms is a new phenomenon, but makes sense given their access to sensitive information.”

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Future Tense: "China’s E-Sports Paradox"

03/30/2016

Future Tense: "China’s E-Sports Paradox"

Photo: The stage and crowd at KeyArena for an e-sports event in 2014. Jakob Wells/Flickr

. . . "The China Internet Network Information Center estimates that close to 400 million Chinese citizens play online games, writes Marcella Szablewicz, an assistant professor of communication studies at Pace University. A good number of these gamers grew up in the late 1980s and 1990s, a time when playing PC games in Internet cafes was a way to assert independence. Chinese youth are subject to a rigid schooling system, in which success on a single college entrance exam is the sole factor that determines college admissions. Parents and schools often restrict extracurricular activities, focusing on test prep above all else. As such, playing games is the quintessential form of Chinese teenage rebellion, not unlike underage drinking in the United States.

The Chinese e-sports industry has, as a result, been plagued by the public’s overwhelmingly negative response to digital gaming, one that has been exacerbated by a media moral panic over Internet addiction. At professional tournaments, it is not uncommon to hear government officials openly proclaim that gaming has a negative effect on youth. For example, during a press conference for the 2012 World Cyber Games, I heard a local official remark that her husband forbade her son to attend the competition, fearing that it would impact his studies. As such, e-sports marketers have made a concerted effort to separate “healthy” e-sports games from those deemed unhealthy and “addictive.” At the Esports Champion League tournament held in Beijing in 2010, an official opened the competition by declaring that, “e-sports [dianzi jingji] is a sport, it must be strictly separated from Internet [wangluo] games.” This separation has carried over into the language used by average gamers, who often insist upon a division between “e-sports” and other “addictive and wasteful” “Internet games,” such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games like World of Warcraft.In spite of this carefully constructed division, SARFT still bans the broadcast of video gaming, including e-sports, on public television channels.

So how does a country that bans television broadcasts of digital games and sends young gamers to Internet addiction rehabilitation camps become a leader in the emergent field of e-sports?

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The Journal News: "Tax Watch: Dueling Trump brands intersect"

03/30/2016

The Journal News: "Tax Watch: Dueling Trump brands intersect"

In Westchester County, the top-of-the-line Trump real estate brand abounds.

His real estate is big. It's bold. It’s luxurious, appealing to high-end purchasers looking for a commanding view, plush amenities and doormen who wear white gloves, as they do at Trump Tower in downtown White Plains.

His political brand, meanwhile, evokes a wide range of emotions, as evidenced by any number of news reports or coverage of the front-running GOP presidential candidate. His supporters flock to a candidate who speaks from his gut, wraps himself in American power and maintains he’ll cut through the bureaucracy to bring change.

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Market Watch: "Hospitality, Meet Culinary: Pace University and International Culinary Center Get Business Students in the Kitchen"

03/30/2016

Market Watch: "Hospitality, Meet Culinary: Pace University and International Culinary Center Get Business Students in the Kitchen"

Pace University and the International Culinary Center (ICC) today announced they have entered into an agreement combining education in ICC's Professional Culinary Arts program with the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) program in Management – Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) concentration offered by Pace's Lubin School of Business.

"Pace's new collaboration with the International Culinary Center provides exciting new opportunities for students to prepare for work in the food service industry," said Neil S. Braun, Dean of the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. "Lubin's HTM and ICC's Professional Culinary Arts program is a potent combination that will give a competitive edge to students interested in launching a career in this industry."

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Pace University hosts fourth annual Celebration of Individuals with Disabilities in Film

03/30/2016

Pace University hosts fourth annual Celebration of Individuals with Disabilities in Film

New York, NY – March 30, 2016 – Pace University hosted its fourth annual Celebration of Individuals with Disabilities in Film on Tuesday, March 29 at One Pace Plaza in lower Manhattan. Pace’s Disability Film Festival Marathon 2016 focused on individuals with disabilities expressing dreams and hopes to be contributing members of society like other individuals without disabilities. The marathon highlighted seven short documentary and narrative films from the Reel Abilities Film Festival in New York City, including Bumblebees, Glimpse of Heaven, Jesse, I Do Not Care, Birthday, Welcome to the Last Bookstore, and Perfect.

The Disability Film Festival Marathon 2016 was sponsored through Pace’s Dean for Students and the outreach programs of its Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, in partnership with AHRC New York City, an organization for helping people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and the Reel Abilities Film Festival in New York City.

A panel of expert practitioners on the advocacy of disability rights in society discussed the challenges and the opportunities highlighted in each of the films, with the panelists inviting engagement from guests. Following the panel discussion, moderators engaged in Q&A with audience guests in opinion polling on film themes.

“The audience interacted with the panelists in polling on diverse impressions of others without disabilities and on issues people with disabilities have in living successfully today,” said James P. Lawler, DPS, Professor of Disability Studies and Information Technologies at Pace and Chair and Organizer of Film Festival Marathon 2016.

About Pace University: Pace University is a comprehensive, independent University with campuses in New York City and Westchester County. Nearly 13,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the Lubin School of Business, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Education, School of Law and College of Health Professions. http://www.pace.edu

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Homeland Security Today: "The Case for Closing Guantánamo Bay"

Photo credit: Erkan Avci—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. Protesters hold banners during a protest in front of the White House in Washington D.C. on Jan. 11, 2016.

President Barack Obama has recently called again for the closure of the Guantánamo Bay military prison and the transfer of all detainees held there to prisons in the United States, writes Thomas M. McDonnell, a professor of international law at Pace Law School.To effectively close GITMO, however, Congress will almost certainly have to repeal a rider to the National Defense Appropriations Act banning the transfer of GITMO detainees to the US. All the Republican presidential candidates and the Republican leadership in the House and the Senate have condemned the President’s proposal. They argue that closing GITMO and bringing the detainees here will endanger the US, make the homeland more prone to terrorist attack, and generally threaten US security. Some Democratic leaders have likewise joined the Republicans in denouncing the President’s proposal.

Their argument has some appeal. Terrorism is theater and the media give terrorist organizations a world stage. If individuals who are accused or convicted of terrorist offenses are brought to the US, with its huge media market and capability, Daesh (ISIS), Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or other related organizations might be more likely to launch terrorist attacks in the US or take American hostages in an effort to free their captured colleagues.

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Entrepreneur: "Meet the Middlemen Who Connect Hackers for Hire With Corporate America"

03/28/2016

Entrepreneur: "Meet the Middlemen Who Connect Hackers for Hire With Corporate America"

. . . “Today there is a growing trend of large companies … who provide these bug bounties for hackers to find vulnerabilities in their network or in their application,” says Darren Hayes, assistant professor and director of cybersecurity at Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems in New York. “It’s really important that companies do this and offer an incentive to find a vulnerability, rather than one of the bad guys finding a vulnerability and doing something nefarious on their network.”

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Pace Enviro Clinic Fights for the Hudson

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A Pace Environmental Policy Clinic study found that the Coast Guard blocked public access to information in the Hudson Anchorage controversy and students are petitioning the agency to withdraw their proposal to create 43 anchorages for oil barges on the Hudson.

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A Peek Inside Pace Magazine

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From a new era at Pace to a new generation poised to change the world, this issue of Pace Magazine introduces you to the environmental pioneers, documentary filmmakers, alumni mentors, cybersecurity experts, and Generation Z making an impact at Pace and beyond.

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Student and Faculty at the United Nations

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“Education can help empower the greater participation of youth, women, survivors of violence, and people from the Global South in peace and security policymaking,” said Rachel Salcedo '17 at the UN. Professor Emily Welty, PhD, also delivered a speech on nuclear weapons.

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PIX11 Features Pace Student Veterans

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As part of a series featuring Pace student veterans, PIX11 interviewed U.S. Army Reservist Jonathan Rosario, who is currently pursuing a degree in IT and cybersecurity with 100% tuition coverage through the Post-9/11 GI Bill and getting help for his PTSD at Pace.

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Among the Top 25 Drama Schools

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The Elisabeth Haub School of Law

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A Princeton Review "Best in the Northeast"

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